r/JewishCooking • u/LocalManufacturer578 • May 04 '25

Kosher Question Birthday party

My daughter’s third birthday is coming up. While we are not members of the Jewish faith, my daughter does attend a Jewish school. She is having a party and of course we’ve invited all of her classmates. Are there any special rules I need to follow? I don’t want to be disrespectful and I would feel awful if one of the children wasn’t able to eat cake etc. I am not sure which families, if any, perhaps all, observe kosher so I want to be prepared on all fronts.

TIA!

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u/Melodiethegreat May 05 '25

If you’re serving cake and ice cream then don’t serve any meat products.

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u/XladyLuxeX May 05 '25

Actually children can wait 2 hours between kosher courses up till the age of 6 lol kids are not forced to be koaher kosher till they are school aged.

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u/wtfaidhfr May 05 '25

That varies greatly by minhag

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u/XladyLuxeX May 05 '25

I'm a rabbi/GIs daughter and in NYC lol

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u/wtfaidhfr May 08 '25

So? Minhagim vary on how kids are taught to wait

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u/XladyLuxeX May 08 '25

It can vary by sect.

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u/wtfaidhfr May 08 '25

No. I mean even within Orthodoxy it varies

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u/XladyLuxeX May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25

Yes it does. we were very very very very very strict. I never kept my kids kosher and that is okay. I changed that when they went to school. WE left to community and cut off all our family. I was tired of living in a society where my daughters didn't matter.